ok...we're not dead yet...the model # of the D-Link is DFE-690TXD. and I have
my service from our cable company, mediacom. we have NO dial up here in the
house...we dont even have a house phone!!
hope that will help you to help me...THANKS!!! pennie

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

Haven't even come *close* to a dead end, yet.

The drivers required by a PCMCIA network adapter should fit on a floppy. The
laptop has a floppy drive, doesn't it?

Alternatively, the laptop now has a modem, which means you can make a
dial-up connection to the internet, which means you can download the drivers
package from D-Link if they won't fit onto a floppy, or perhaps you can do
it using two floppies. Certainly shouldn't require more than that.

What model is your D-Link card? Who do you get your internet service from?
With those two answers, especially the first one, I can almost certainly
come up with a way for you to install your D-Link card.

--

Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User

"breezyyb" wrote in message
...
hi again...
the card that was in the laptop is a "data/fax modem...PCMCIA from
IBM"...there is nothing but the card...nothing attched to it. so I went
out
and got this "D-Link 10/100 fast ethernet notebook adapter"...and guess
what?
I cant install the thing because I dont have a cd-rom inthe laptop...I
think
I am about to give up here!! I seem to be getting beat all the way around!
If you have no more ideas that all right...I did put the card into the
laptop, and it fits nicly but there it sits and nothing happened when its
hooked up to the internet....the laptop doesnt even seem to recognize it
the
card, but I was hoping something good would happen!! I have hit a dead end
huh?
thanks for all your help!!! pennie
"Jeff Richards" wrote:

What does the label on the PCMCIA card say? It could be a modem, an
Ethernet card, memory or a number of other things.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"breezyyb" wrote in message
...
hi again..ok, upon looking at the laptop, it has no USB
port...(GASP!)...all
it has is the PMCIA card which I assume should have some sort of
wire/cord
attached. my desktop has the modem and router that Mr. Terhune
described.
we
are hooked up to
with our cable company...
I do really apologize for not giving all this info to start with...I
thought it would just be a matter of hooking up a serial port cable and
off I
would go!! wow!
but thanks again for taking the time...breezyyb